Evolution of Media

• Pre-Industrial Age

  • Before 1700's
  • about 4.5m years ago
  • discovered fire, developed paper from plants
  • used stone tools and metals
• Earliest form of traditional media

  • Petroglyphs
  • pictographs
• Cave painting

  35,000 BC
• Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia

  9,000 BC
• Papyrus in Egypt

  2500 BC
• Acta Diurna in Rome

  130 BC
• Dibao in China

  2nd Century
• Codex in the Mayan Region

  5th Century
• Printing Press using wood blocks

  220 AD
• Industrial age


  • 1700's - 1930's
  • occurs during the industrial revolution in Great Britain
• Ultimate goal of Industrial Age


  rely less on human labor in manufacturing processes
• Printing press for mass production

  19th Century
• Newspaper - The London Gazette

  1640
• Typewriter

  1800
• Telephone

  1876
• Motion Picture photography

  1890
• Commercial motion picture

  1913
• Motion picture with sound

  1926
• Telegraph

  1844
• Electronic Age

  • started when people utilize the power of electricity
  • creation of transistor piloted the rise of E age
• Electronic Television

  • first demonstrate in San Francisco on
  • Sept. 7, 1927
  • designed by Philo Taylor Fransmoth
• Transistor radio

  1947
• Television

  1941
• EDSAC

  1949
• UNIVAC 1

  1951
• Mainframe Computers

  1960
• Personal Computers Hewlett Packard 9100 A

  1968
• Apple 1

  1976
• LCD Projectors and OHP

  1980
• Information Age

  • 1980's - 2000's
  • also known as digital age
  • use of WWW through internet connection
  • communication became faster and easier
• Web browser

  1. Mosaic 1993
  2. Internet Explorer 1995
• Blogs

  • Blogspot 1999
  • Live Journal 1999
  • Wordpress 2003
• Social Media

  • Friendster 2002
  • Facebook 2004
• Microblogs

  • Twitter 2006
  • Tumblr 2007
• Video

  • Youtube 2005 , 2020
• Video Chat

  • Google Hangout 2013
• Search engine

  • Google 1996
  • Yahoo 1995
• Portable Computers

  • Laptops 1980
  • Tablets 1993
  • Netbooks 2008